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Wonder In The Weeds

Cristie Ritz-King

"Wonder in the Weeds" with trauma therapist Cristie Ritz-King. This is the show where we talk about how to live, love, and grow right alongside grief, change, and the "wild messiness of this human life". Moving beyond the role of the "blank slate" therapist , Cristie combines her professional experience with her personal stories of challenge and reinvention. We"re not about toxic positivity or influencer-style advice. Instead, this is a space for authentic connection, community , and understanding

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39:57

Eric Schmitt Forgot Women Play Basketball | A Mom's Take

Wonder In The Weeds ·

2026/10/07

It’s just me today, and I need to talk about something that’s been on my mind all week.At a congressional hearing, Senator Eric Schmitt tried to catch Jack Smith in a lie about being at an Atlanta Hawks game. He was actually at a Maryland vs. Iowa women’s game to see Caitlin Clark. The Hawkeyes, not the Hawks. It would be funny if it weren’t so telling. In this episode I dig into the layers of that moment: the disregard for the truth, the doubling down, and the fact that it never even crossed his

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56:09

Why Can't We Be Normal About Taylor Swift? | Gen X...

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2026/09/30

Faith was four years old when she started singing “Our Song” everywhere we went.The grocery store. The car. The little ice cream shop where the lady behind the counter thought she was the cutest thing she had ever seen.She has been a Taylor Swift fan for as long as Taylor Swift has existed, and I have had a front-row seat watching my daughter grow up right alongside Taylor’s career.So when we sat down in a coffee shop to plan our next XwhyZ episode, it was only a matter of time before we landed

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39:46

You Don't Get Over Grief — You Build Your Life Around...

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2026/09/16

Content note: This conversation touches on suicide loss. If you’re struggling, in the US you can call or text 988, the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, any time.There are some conversations that stay with you long after you hit stop on the recording.My conversation with singer-songwriter Mandi Leigh is one of those.Mandi’s music career grew out of profound loss. She lost someone deeply important to her in 2017, followed by several more losses in 2020. During a health journey, she picked up a guitar, and

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46:05

Why Won't Anyone Listen to Women? | Gen X Meets Gen Z...

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2026/09/09

My Gen Z kid handed me an article, and it turned into a whole conversation about who actually gets listened to.I want to tell you how this episode started, because it is very on brand for us. We spent the first few minutes arguing about the countdown, me taking a sip of coffee right in the middle of the intro, and a genuinely unhinged bit about my Minnesota loon mug. If you have ever wondered whether Faith and I have our act together before we hit record, please let this put the question to rest. We

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48:20

Grief Never Ends. Here's How to Live Alongside It |...

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2026/09/02

I found Chelsea Laliberte-Barnes the way I find most things that stop me in my tracks: on the internet. It was a short video of her talking to her camera, ten years after a federal law passed in memory of her brother, finally getting to meet the congresswoman who co-sponsored it. Eighteen years after his death, she was a blubbering mess. And she was also a woman who had spent those eighteen years building a movement.That is the whole show, right there. That is the thing I keep trying to say.Chelsea

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63:58

The Sophomore Slump Nobody Warns You About | Gen X...

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2026/08/26

Everyone prepares you for freshman year. Nobody prepares you for the second one.In this XYZ segment of Wonder in the Weeds, Faith and I talk about the sophomore slump from both sides of it. I am the Gen X mom who has now sent two kids off twice, and Faith is the Gen Z daughter who calls sophomore year “the year I made all my mistakes.” We had been circling this conversation for months and finally sat down and did it, cameras and all.Freshman year comes with scaffolding. Dorm parents, RAs, study

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53:17

Sending Your Kid to College: What I Wish I Knew as a...

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2026/08/19

Sending a kid to college is different every single time, even when it is the same kid and the same school.In this episode I talk through what I wish I had known as a parent dropping kids off at college, both as a mom on my third and final one and as a therapist. I get into why you should not try to be the parent you see on TikTok, why now is not the time to cram 18 years of wisdom into three weeks, and how to tell the difference between pain and discomfort when your instinct is to swoop in and fix

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33:29

The Power of Relationship: Why No Therapy Works...

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2026/08/12

The Relationship Is the InterventionI listened to an episode of If Books Could Kill this week where the hosts took apart The Body Keeps the Score, and I felt myself get defensive in a way I usually don’t.I love that show. I love watching them expose the grifters. But this one is a sacred tome in the trauma therapy world, and I caught myself thinking, hold on. Hold on.They were kinder to this one than they are to most. They know he’s an actual expert. They poked at the research, or at the places

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41:27

Can AI Be Your Therapist? A Trauma Therapist and an...

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2026/08/05

We got all the way to the end of a really good conversation about artificial intelligence and I realized I had never pressed the button.Carla’s response was not annoyance. It was relief. She said she has been so immersed in AI, where everything is perfect and programmed, that a human forgetting something felt like a gift.So we did it again. And this one was the same conversation and a completely different one.Here is where we each started.Carla spent the last year and a half working in East Africa

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36:45

Setting the Record Straight: What the Internet Gets...

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2026/07/29

I have been on the internet for a long, long time. Longer than my kids have been alive. And the single most-viewed thing I have ever put out into the world is a nine-second clip of my daughter saying she doesn’t know how to be a girl that guys like.Not the essays. Not the years of writing. Nine seconds of Faith being honest on a Tuesday.That clip is still bringing ten to twenty new people to this show every day. It has outrun everything else we have made, and it has been doing it for months. I am

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38:43

Why the WNBA Gave Me Myself Back | Wonder in the Weeds

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2026/07/22

This week is more wonder than weeds, and I am not sorry about it.I moved here almost a year ago and I have spent almost every day since trying to connect with people. Volunteering. Golf. Pickleball. Three book clubs. It honestly feels like homework.Then the 4th of July came. Here in the US it is supposed to be this big patriotic thing, 250 years, fireworks, the whole deal. I was not feeling it. Not in a global sense, not with where this country is right now. And on a smaller scale, that used to be

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29:19

The Algorithm Is Not the World: Finding Wonder When...

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2026/07/15

Hello and welcome back to Wonder in the Weeds, where we talk about surviving and thriving in a world full of constant change, challenge, and grief. Today, the weeds are the ones growing in my feed.Here is how this episode happened. I recorded a whole show about sports and becoming a fan again. I was pleased with it. Then I read about our president interfering with the US World Cup match, and I did not want that episode out in the world anymore. Then it was one more thing, and one more thing after

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33:49

Is It Selfish to Feel Joy When the World Is on Fire?

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2026/07/08

It’s just me this week. Faith is out being a busy Gen Z human (working, auditioning, and she got cast in a show!), so you get me and a couch full of snoring dogs.I came on to talk about the thing she and I have been trying to record about for weeks: creativity, and what happens to it when the world feels too heavy to make anything at all. I’ve been a writer my whole life, first for myself, then blogging back when we all opened our Blogspot accounts and wrote about motherhood into the void. That

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35:59

Comparison Is the Thief of Joy: Gen X + Gen Z on...

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2026/07/01

Comparison is the thief of joy, but knowing that has never once made me stop doing it.This week Faith and I get honest about how comparison hits differently at 24 and at 50. She opens up about measuring herself against her dad and me at her age, chasing milestones that keep moving, and comparing herself to a “fake version” of who she’d be if she’d made different choices. I share what my twenties actually felt like behind the row home and the marriage everyone seemed to envy.We get into social media

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27:57

What Is Explicit Parenting? A 4-Pillar Framework for...

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2026/06/24

I keep referencing “explicit parenting” on the show, so this week I finally explain what I mean.It started with a little book I wrote over a decade ago, Explicit Parenting: Tips from the Trenches for Raising Good and Happy Humans. It pulled together everything I know as a teacher, doula, childbirth educator, and trauma therapist, plus what I’ve lived as a wife and mom. Over the years it turned into a framework I use for parenting, relationships, and honestly just living.The name throws people off

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30:42

Curiosity Is a Privilege | Why We Stopped Asking...

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2026/06/17

What happens to a country when curiosity disappears?I’m by myself on the couch this week, sitting with something that’s been frustrating me lately: how little curiosity and nuance there seems to be in the world right now. Everywhere I look there’s an extreme view on one side, an extreme view on the other, and almost nothing in between. We assume the other person is evil or dumb instead of stopping to ask whether they’re just working with different information.So I put on my trauma therapist hat. My

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46:59

Nobody Prepares You for This Part of Empty Nesting

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2026/06/10

This Week’s Weeds: There’s No Buffering Yourself From Empty Nest GriefI’m flying solo this week (Z is off chasing the theater dream; she’ll be back), and it’s fitting because this episode is about exactly that: my kids not being here.Here’s the thing I got wrong about empty nesting. I thought the women who struggled were the ones who’d lost themselves in motherhood. I made sure that wasn’t me: I wrote, taught, got certified in yoga and meditation, and earned a master’s and a doctorate while raising

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32:05

Raising Kids Who Actually Like You as Adults

Wonder In The Weeds ·

2026/06/03

Welcome to another episode of Wonder in the Weeds! This week it was just me. No Gen Z counterpart in the chair, though I promise we talked about her plenty.I just got back from five days on the road. I drove two of my three adult kids out to Colorado to see family, called the third one from the car so it would feel complete, and somewhere along those thirteen hours I realized this is exactly the relationship I always hoped I’d have with them. So this one is more wonder than weeds. It’s about what it

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59:46

Gen X vs. Gen Z on Finances: Budgeting, Taxes, and...

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2026/05/27

Welcome to another episode of the XYZ Podcast! This week, I sat down with my daughter and Gen Z co-host, Faith, to talk about financial literacy from our two very different generational perspectives.It feels like everything is incredibly expensive all the time lately. We decided to sit down and discuss the stark differences in how we learned about personal finance, credit cards, and staying afloat. From my memories of surviving on tight paychecks to Faith navigating her gig income and dealing with

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48:24

Gen X vs. Gen Z Debate: The Pitt Season 2 & Workplace...

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2026/05/13

Welcome to the podcast! In this episode, my co-host and I get into a passionate generational debate about the season two finale of the hit TV show The Pitt. We discuss Noah Wyle's complex character, Dr. Robbie, and his intense struggles with compassion fatigue. Is his behavior toward his coworkers an understandable reaction to stress, or are younger generations right to demand better workplace boundaries?We compare our very different generational perspectives on apologies, making amends, and

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